Where is everyone #5

I'll tell you, as long as that ECM number is in range, forget that number. It's never correct to me. Mechanical gauge or check with inferred gun.


Just wanna see that ecm number in its operating range. When it says it -85 and its 50 outside. That's a problem. Your shaker should be a mechanical gauge. Unless someone special ordered electric. Or its after 2003 or so. But even mechanical gauges wear out.


On a side note. I'm looking for aftermarket speedo and tach for my shaker if anyone has ideas. I have put most Autometer gauges in the rest of the holes.

 

Imagine if a car had been beside him on a 3 lane.........

 

Hurumph!

 

I prefer dairies over any other work, but that’s just me. All our feed is on pallets which I tailgate to the back of the trailer with a pallet jack. Then it gets unloaded usually with a skid steer or loader. Haven’t been to a farm yet that has a dock. All our work is big commercial dairies which have thousands of cows on the property. Cows have to eat so there is job security in feeding them for the most part. When milk prices are down we do slow up some.
I see mostly walking floors and dump buckets delivering bulk feed with an occasional hopper here and there. Obviously milk tankers are in and out daily. Most of these places I go have so many cows they milk 24/7 it’s non stop process. Trucks are in and out all day and all night.

Cant speak for hauling cows on or off the farms Ive only hauled kill cows from the auctions to the slaughter house.

Hope that helps a little.

 

Im leaning towards wrong sensor - I may have to contact Detroit with engine serial number, unless it’s a proprietary Peterbilt sensor, in which case I . . .

Don’t know.

 

Wasn’t me I’m running back and forth to a Texas, New Mexico, Iowa, and Nebraska from the Terre Haute area. Wish it was me would prefer a hopper over a freight box or reefer !

 

Amtek - seems to be what was offered at Peterbilt for a replacement.

Friend has a FLD ‘94, that’s what they supplied him too. If you have problems with the dip switch settings let me know, played that game too.

 

I am almost certain that it Pete only.

 

I used to roam all of North America and stay in areas for months at a time. Like MilfordUT. Or in the Texas panhandle. Or O’Donnell Texas. Garden City Kansas. Heck western Kansas and Oklahoma. But that’s different though. You get in on a big building project, you may be there for months or years.

But to go out there for 1 trip? The last time I took a load to Vegas, the load paid $10grand. Lost a wheel seal, cooked the bearings, and exploded a steer tire out in the middle of west Texas. Roadside repair cost $2800. Add in fuel costs and you’ll realize that $10g’s isn’t being obscene, it’s being safe. Well, for me at least.

Empty, I am 45000 lbs. That cuts me out of the majority of the cheap loads. But pulling cheap freight is like being a pimped out streetwalker. You do ALL the work and someone else makes all the money. Makes you feel dirty and violated.